Environmental Issues

Nowadays, the capitalism is the most common economical system around the world; in fact just a few countries have a different system. Some people think that capitalism is really good and opens a lotof opportunities for a group of people, but others think that is an unfair system that only benefits rich people; it is like the Darwin’s evolution theory where the strongest species survive. Thecapitalism has made that society only thinks about getting more and more money, without thinking about the consequences of that, and some of that consequences are terrible not just for the human been, butfor animals, plants and even the earth.
One of the most important environmental issues now in Colombia is mining. Throughout the different governments that Colombia has have, the mining hadincreased more and more, with Alvaro Uribe mining achieve great levels through all the national territory. Even when Colombia has one of the greatest flora and fauna richness, the government is only interestin exploit it to get money without caring the environment and even the people, let’s see why:
- Government’s -with Alvaro Uribe and Juan Manuel Santos- common speech is that mining is one of the mostimportant aspects for the country’s development and allegedly it gives us a large amount of money, but actually is just a little quantity of country’s money compare to the environmental damage andwe have to think that mining’s money goes to the companies that are exploiting our ground, those and others factors are making that enterprises get interested in Colombia like a place to get differentmaterials
- Some important politicians are making dials with companies to make contracts to exploit the Colombian land in search of gold, coal and other components in forbidden parts like moors,natural parks, forest reserve etc. That kind of corruptions affects the environment and people of almost all the country but specially La Guajira, Magdalena, Cauca, Cesar, Chocó, Antioquia and others....